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Good conditions throughout the region have led to a great start to the 2017 growing season, says Grant Lastiwka, with Alberta Agriculture in Olds.

The clear losers on election night in British Columbia were the 100,000 people in Alberta's oilpatch who have been laid off. Premier Rachel Notley's social licence for oilsands development was not worth the paper it was written on when B.C.

CARSTAIRS-CREMONA-DIDSBURY - A group of bikers from Calgary will be riding through Mountain View County on May 20 and stopping in several communities to raise awareness about child abuse.

Chinook's Edge School Division officials are reminding students and parents that replica and imitation firearms should never be brought to school without prior approval from staff.

DIDSBURY - Work on the 20th Avenue rehabilitation project is well underway.

DIDSBURY - Students at Didsbury High School were busy working hard in the community last week as part of the May Monarch program.

There's something all those 110,000 folks beavering away for Alberta Health Services instinctively understand. That is their allotted place on the org chart. Forget about Hippocratic oaths and duties of care.

When Mother's Day looms on the horizon, I admit that I have mixed feelings. My mom now sits in long-term care, mostly asleep or unaware of the person she once was.

DIDSBURY - Didsbury RCMP will be getting its new detachment commander on May 23. Staff Sgt. Chad Fournier is looking forward to leading the detachment and getting to know the area and the residents.

It was a day early, April 30, but the spirit on the Alberta legislature grounds was the same as International Workers' Day held each year on May 1 in Europe.